An all American, this Baja black-collared lizard basks in it’s own freedom in our Herp Photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user Brockn ! Be sure to tell them you liked it here! Upload your own reptile and amphibian photos at gallery.kingsnake.com, and you could see them featured here! …read more Read more here: […]
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Jul 04
Jul 04
The Waaaaaaa-mooch
A burrowing frog floating quietly between the bleating calls. So What’s a Waaaaaaaa-mooch? It was probably about 1949 or 1950 when I learned of the “waaaaaaa-mooch.” A couple of my favorite childhood books were by naturalist Ivan T. Sanderson. And it was in his “Living Treasure” (published in 1941) that he discussed his first encounter […]
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Herp Photo of the Day: Rattlesnake Friday!
Happy Rattlesnake Friday! To end the week, flash back to this patternless Nitsche’s bush viper (Atheris nitschei) from 2006 for our Herp Photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user reptilelocators ! Be sure to tell them you liked it here! As always on Friday, we celebrate all of our venomous reptiles for their contribution […]
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Bahamian Curly-tailed Lizards
Curly-tails are alert and very fast. The curly-tailed lizard, Leiocephalus carinatus, looks superficially like a heavy bodied swift (fence lizard) with an unruly, upcurled, tail. Present in Florida since the mid-1930s when it was deliberately introduced in the hope that it would consume unwanted insects in the sugarcane crops, this active diurnal Bahamian native is […]
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